Abstract
This article refers to the notions of mobility, exile, displacement and border crossing in Barthélémy Toguo’s decolonial artistic approach. It looks back at some of the Cameroonian artist’s highly provocative performances from 1996 to 2002 in order to address issues of racism and immigration. From Road on Exile to New World Climax, through Spiral Land, Climbing down, Das Bett and Transit, we learn to understand that his artistic work, through its intercultural and interaesthetic scope, is a global, (non-in)dividual and decolonial art.
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Road to exile, 2008. Wooden boat, bundles of cloth, bottles. Acquired by the museum of the Cité nationale de l’histoire de l’immigration in Paris in 2010.
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Barthélémy Toguo: https://www.barthelemytoguo.com/transit/, Transit 1.
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Barthélémy Toguo: https://www.barthelemytoguo.com/transit/, Transit 2.
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Barthélémy Toguo: https://www.barthelemytoguo.com/transit/, Transit 3.
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Barthélémy Toguo: https://www.barthelemytoguo.com/transit/, Transit 4.
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Barthélémy Toguo: https://www.barthelemytoguo.com/transit/, Transit 5.
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Barthélémy Toguo: https://www.barthelemytoguo.com/transit/, Transit 6.
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Underlined in bold by the author of this text.
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This is the title of a book by Léonora Miano (2012).
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The title of an installation by the artist at the Lyon Biennale in 2000.
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Diop, B.M. (2023). The Notion of Mobility in Barthélémy Toguo’s Work: Reflection on a Decolonial Artistic Practice. In: Ott, M., Diop, B.M. (eds) Decolonial Aesthetics I. Ästhetiken X.0 – Zeitgenössische Konturen ästhetischen Denkens. J.B. Metzler, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-65899-4_7
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